General interest, popular reading

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Plain black lettering of the book main title at the top, followed by the author's name, a Unisa logo in black linework, and at the bottom of the page, the university of South Africa indicated in both Afrikaans and in English, followed by the word 'Pretoria' and the publication date on a plain cream

Aristoteles en die Macedoniese Politiek

H J De Vleeschauwer
December 30, 1956
Pale green background with subtitle in green at top, and vertical main title in decorative lettering on the right-hand side of the book. at the bottom, a list of languages used in the book is placed.

Beyond the He-man Approach: Guidelines for gender-inclusive language

Wendy Martyna
June 30, 1996

Breaking Free from the Cycle of Family Abuse: A Daughter's Journey. A memoir

Gugu Zungu
September 15, 2025
Top part of design is a multicolour abstract watercolour image on a white background. the bottom part of the cover has the main title lettering large, and the subtitle smaller (all in purple rounded lettering). the author's name is in red lettering at the bottom right of the cover.

Creative Intuition: A Philosophical Investigation into a Fluid Way of Being

Theresa Hardman
March 26, 2026
Full-colour photo of 4 large cycad plants outlined against a bright blue sky, with bilingual black italicised lettering of the main title at the top (left in English and right in Afrikaans)

The Cycad Garden of Unisa: Broodboomtuin van Unisa

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1975
Top three-quarters of the cover is a full-colour photo of a dancing crowd with strobe lights from above, with a purple colour band at the bottom, interrupted with a circular-shaped e-embossed tablet forming part of the title lettering, or the e in rave (the lettering is white, italicized capital letters); the subtitle is smaller, also in white lowercase letterign, on the purple colour band background, with the author's name in bright blue lettering at the bottom of the cover.

The E in Rave

Fanitsa H Zervogiannis
June 30, 2003
bilingual main title at top in brown lettering on beige background, with a large drawing of indigenous people in silhouette style against a background of a rural environment suggested by plants, a goat, and with the female figure on the right carrying firewood on her head .

Folk-tales of the Wambo: Volksverhale van die Wambo

J J Viljoen, P Amakali, Paavo Hasheela
June 30, 1984
Background colour photo of a comet moving horizontally, with in the front, blue lettering outlined in white for the book's maintitle, while the 2 authors' names are placed in smaller and in white lettering at the lower part of the cover.

Halley se Komeet

Gawie Cillie, Walter Wargau
December 31, 1985
Sketch in red pencil with handwriting superimposed on the drawing in the background, while in the foreground the main book title is in red lettering, with the subtitle in navy blue script font, while the compiler's name is placed below in red lettering against a faded transparent blue colour band.

Herman Charles Bosman: The Prose Juvenilia

M C Anderson
December 31, 1998
Bright cartoon-style coloured drawing of a modern couple juggling their money , on a dark blue background. The lettering is in different colours (blue, orange and yellow) and the author's name is in blue capital letters at the bottom of the cover illustration.

Hoe moet ek my geldsake na skool en universiteit beplan?

Nico Swart
December 31, 1997
decorative lettering in black on yellow background, with multicoloured cartoon drawing of a puzzled male office worker holding his pay cheque in his hand, pondering investment options. The author's name is in black capital letters at the bottom.

Hoe moet ek my pakket bele?

Nico Swart
December 31, 1999
brightly coloured cartoon of a woman and a man shown spending money or holding on to it. The cartoon is against a deep blue background. The main title is placed above the cartoon in multi-coloured informal-style lettering, and the author's name is placed in capital letters at the bottom right of the book cover.

How to plan your money matters after school and university

Nico Swart
December 31, 1997
In the foreground, the main title is placed in white lettering on a splash bubble of red ink. The cover background shows a collage of newspaper clippings. The editor's name is at the bottom. in black ink.

Lewe in n VIGS-kultuur

Jan De Jong van Arkel; Alta van Dyk , Christa van Wyk , Margie Beukes , Robert McKay, Gawie van der Walt
December 31, 1991
Background is a white and black collage of newspaper clippings reporting on AIDS deaths, with a large solid red splash outline shpae at the top of the book cover, in which white lettering is place of the main book title. The Editor's title is placed at the bottom of the cover in black lettering on the newspaper collage background.

Living in an AIDS culture

Jan de Jongh van Arkel ; Margie Beukes , Robert Mckay, Gawie van der Walt , Alta van Dyk , Christa van Wyk
December 30, 1991
Background photo of Venda ankle bangles worn by the owner of the bangles, with in the foreground lettering: at the top, main title in yellow, subtitle below in white capital latters, and at bottom of the page, author's name and surname in white lettering

A Matriarchal Ecology: Indigenous Women’s Environmental Activism in Venda, South Africa

Kimberly B Ross
November 3, 2025
front cover book photo with seascape with the Cape Drakensberg silhouette in the background, with lettering of title at top, and author and contributors listed below

The Moltenos of the Cape

Selina Molteno, Robert Molteno; Catherine Corder, Hugh Corder
June 30, 2025
Red main title lettering on right, with an airplane maked with the South African flag colours, is flying downwards towards another globe. Ths Author's name is in white at the bottom, right. The book subtitle is in blue lettering on the bottom right of the cover.globe

The New Great Trek: The story of South Africa's white exodus

Johann Van Rooyen
June 30, 2000
Main book title in mustard brown script lettering on a blue-toned photo of a woman gazing downwards. The author's name is smaller and on the bottom left-hand side.

The Piety of Afrikaans Women

Christina Landman
June 30, 1994
The cover background is in deep maroon, with gold/yellow lettering. At the bottom of the cover, is added in small lettering, the name of the editor.

Professor Theo van Wijk

H J Liebenberg, J C G J van Vuuren , M H Stockhoff , D W Steyn , E. Pereira; C F J Müller, Ridley Beeton, J E M Verwey, John Willemse, Ida van Vuuren , J J Labuschagne, Elize Botha, A J Koen, J H van der Merwe, S A Strauss
December 31, 1988
Artwork containing a silhouette of a figure on left, with main title lettering in white and placed vertically in the middle of the cover, with background on right in purple and left in sand/beige, both on an embossed effect background.

Sites of remembering: The meaning of African art through memory

Abebe Zegeye; Thembinkosi Goniwe
October 15, 2025
Main title in capital letters in wine red, with patterns of dates against a beige background.

Spes in arduis: 'n geskiedenis van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

Maurice Boucher
December 31, 1973
Times Roman capital letters used for the main title, with lowercase text and University of South Africa logo lower, centre of the cover, on a plain white background

Summaries of theses accepted by the University of South Africa in 1965

P Haffter
December 30, 1965
Olive green background with black line drawing on left of a traditional indigenous hut made of reeds, with a palm tree, left and in front a topless indigenous woman wearing a grass skirt, and holding a naked baby on her hip. She is standing in front of a heap of large vegetables, and behnd her are 2 baskets. Part of the book title, `trobriand gardening'' is in white outlined capital letters. The author's name is at the bottom right, in black italics lettering.

The symbolic role of women in Trobriand gardening

Marianne Brindley
June 30, 1984
Photo of white blossoms on a tree in the background, wih red lettering in the foreground: at the top is the main book title, bilingual and in caps, on left (English) and on right: Afrikaans, with the rest of the subtitle below: vn / of UNISARAND

Trees, birds and shrubs of Unisa: Bome,Struike en Voëls van Unisarand

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1984
Black-and-white sepia-style images of artwork arranged in postage stamp size, adjacent to each other, with large orange lettering at the bottom, saying Uitstalling

Uitstalling Unisa Versameling / Exhibition Unisa Collection

Karin Skawran
December 30, 1979
wine red background with white and grey capital letters used on top for the main title, with below a silhouetted cut-out black-and-white photo of a poor white family standing in front of a smalll stone house. At the bottom of the book cover is a dark grey horizontal band with white lettering of the subtitle and the editor, Robert Morrell

White but poor: Essays on the History of Poor Whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940

Robert Morrell
June 30, 1996
Orange main title in capital letters at the top left of the cover, with a sepia brown collage in the background, showing a photo of a young white woman bottom left, and on the right, an artistic rendering of a African woman in traditional adornments.

Women, society and constraints: A collection of contemporary South African gender studies

Jeanette Malherbe, Marc Kleijwegt, Elize Koen
December 30, 2000